OpenMP* Directives and Clauses Summary

PARALLEL
END PARALLEL

Defines a parallel region.

TASK
END TASK

Defines a task region.

DO
END DO

Identifies an iterative worksharing construct in which the iterations of the associated loop should be divided among threads in a team.

SECTIONS
END SECTIONS

Identifies a non-iterative worksharing construct that specifies a set of structured blocks that are to be divided among threads in a team.

SECTION

Indicates that the associated structured block should be executed in parallel as part of the enclosing sections construct.

SINGLE
END SINGLE

Identifies a construct that specifies that the associated structured block is executed by only one thread in the team.

PARALLEL DO
END PARALLEL DO

A shortcut for a PARALLEL region that contains a single DO directive.

PARALLEL SECTIONS
END PARALLEL SECTIONS

Provides a shortcut form for specifying a parallel region containing a single SECTIONS construct.

MASTER
END MASTER

Identifies a construct that specifies a structured block that is executed by only the master thread of the team.

CRITICAL[name]
END CRITICAL[name]

Identifies a construct that restricts execution of the associated structured block to a single thread at a time. Each thread waits at the beginning of the critical construct until no other thread is executing a critical construct with the same name argument.

TASKWAIT

Indicates a wait on the completion of child tasks generated since the beginning of the current task.

TASKYIELD

Indicates that the current task can be suspended in favor of a different task.

BARRIER

Synchronizes all the threads in a team. Each thread waits until all of the other threads in that team have reached this point.

ATOMIC UPDATE

Synchronizes with other atomic operations on a given variable. Updates the variable atomically with the indicated operation.

ATOMIC READ

Synchronizes with other atomic operations on a given variable. Reads the variable atomically.

ATOMIC WRITE

Synchronizes with other atomic operations on a given variable. Writes a new value into the variable.

ATOMIC CAPTURE

Synchronizes with other atomic operations on a given variable. Captures the old value of a variable atomically, then applies the indicated operation to the variable.

FLUSH [(list)]

Specifies a cross-thread sequence point at which the implementation is required to ensure that all the threads in a team have a consistent view of certain objects in memory. The optional list argument consists of a comma-separated list of variables to be flushed.

ORDERED
END ORDERED

The enclosed structured block is executed in the order in which iterations would be executed in a sequential loop.

THREADPRIVATE (list)

Makes the named COMMON blocks or variables private to a thread. The list argument consists of a comma-separated list of COMMON blocks or variables.

PRIVATE (list)

Declares variables in list to be PRIVATE to each thread in a team. Private copies of the variable are not initialized before they are used.

FIRSTPRIVATE (list)

Same as PRIVATE, but the copy of each variable in the list is initialized using the value of the original variable existing before the construct. Each private data object is initialized with the value of the original object.

LASTPRIVATE (list)

Same as PRIVATE, but the original variables in list are updated using the values assigned to the corresponding PRIVATE variables in the last iteration in the DO construct loop or the last SECTION construct.

COPYPRIVATE (list)

Uses private variables in list to broadcast values, or pointers to shared objects, from one member of a team to the other members at the end of a single construct.

NOWAIT

Specifies that threads need not wait at the end of worksharing constructs until they have completed execution. The threads may proceed past the end of the worksharing constructs as soon as there is no more work available for them to execute.

SHARED (list)

Shares variables in list among all the threads in a team.

DEFAULT (mode)

Sets the default data attributes of variables not explicitly specified by another clause. Possible values for mode are PRIVATE, SHARED, or NONE.

REDUCTION ({operator|intrinsic}:list)

Performs a reduction on variables that appear in list with the operator operator or the intrinsic procedure name intrinsic; operator is one of the following: +, *, .AND., .OR., .EQV., .NEQV.; intrinsic refers to one of the following: MAX, MIN, IAND, IOR, or IEOR.

ORDERED
END ORDERED

Used in conjunction with a DO or SECTIONS construct to impose a serial order on the execution of a section of code. If ORDERED constructs are contained in the dynamic extent of the DO construct, the ordered clause must be present on the DO directive.

IF (expression)

The enclosed code block is executed in parallel only if the expression evaluates to .TRUE., otherwise it is serialized.

The expression must be a scalar of type logical.

NUM_THREADS (expression)

Requests the number of threads specified by expression for the parallel region. The expressions must be of type integer.

SCHEDULE (type[,chunk])

Specifies how iterations of the DO construct are divided among the threads of the team. Possible values for the type argument are STATIC, DYNAMIC, GUIDED, and RUNTIME. The optional chunk argument must be a positive scalar integer expression.

COLLAPSE (n)

Specifies how many nested loops of a for loop associated with the OpenMP for construct should be collapsed into a single loop for running in parallel.

COPYIN (list)

Provides a mechanism to copy the data values of the master thread to the THREADPRIVATE copy of the common blocks or variables specified in list, at the beginning of the parallel region.

UNTIED

Indicates that a resumed task does not have to be executed by same thread executing it before it was suspended.

PARALLEL
END PARALLEL

• IF

• NUM_THREADS

• DEFAULT

• PRIVATE

• FIRSTPRIVATE

• SHARED

• COPYIN

• REDUCTION

DO
END DO

• SCHEDULE

• PRIVATE

• FIRSTPRIVATE

• LASTPRIVATE

• REDUCTION

• ORDERED

• NOWAIT

• COLLAPSE

SECTIONS
END SECTIONS

• PRIVATE

• FIRSTPRIVATE

• LASTPRIVATE

• REDUCTION

• NOWAIT

SECTION

None

SINGLE
END SINGLE

• PRIVATE

• FIRSTPRIVATE

• COPYPRIVATE

• NOTWAIT

PARALLEL DO
END PARALLEL DO

• IF

• NUM_THREADS

• SCHEDULE

• DEFAULT

• PRIVATE

• FIRSTPRIVATE

• LASTPRIVATE

• SHARED

• COPYIN

• REDUCTION

• ORDERED

• COLLAPSE

PARALLEL SECTIONS
END PARALLEL SECTIONS

• IF

• NUM_THREADS

• DEFAULT

• PRIVATE

• FIRSTPRIVATE

• LASTPRIVATE

• SHARED

• COPYIN

• REDUCTION

All others

None